CONTENTS. 



eluding all the Species inhabit- 

 ing the Western Palsearctic 

 Area, Part I., by H. E. Dresser, 

 40 



Creatures of the Night — a Book of 

 Wild Life in Western Britain, 

 by Alfred W. Rees, 79 



Nature's Nursery, by H. W. Sbep- 

 heard-Walwyn, 80 



The Geese of Europe and Asia, by 

 Sergius Alpheraky, with coloured 

 plates by F. W. Frohawk, &c, 

 118 



The Zoological Society of London, 

 a sketch of its foundation and 

 development, &c, by Henry 

 Scherren, 119 



More Natural History Essays, by 

 Graham Rensbaw, 120 



Darwinism and tbe Problems of 

 Life, by Conrad Guenther, trans- 

 lated from the Third Edition by 

 Joseph McCabe, 157 



The Birds of the Isle of Man, by 

 P. G. Ralfe, 158 



Beport on the Immigrations of 

 Summer Residents in the Spring 

 of 1905, 159 



A Treatise on Zoology, edited by 

 E. Ray Lankester, Part V., Mol- 

 lusca, by Paul Pelseneer, 197 



The Natural History of Selborne, 

 by the Rev. Gilbert White, re- 

 arranged, and classified under 

 subjects, by diaries Mosley, 

 198 



The British Woodlice, by Wilfred 

 Mark Webb and Charles Sillem, 

 199 



The Eggs of European Birds, Part 

 I., by the Rev. Francis C. R. 

 Jourdain, 199 



The British Freshwater Rhizopoda 

 and Heliozoa, by James Cash, 

 assisted by John Hopkinson, 

 239 



A Pocket-Book of British Birds, by 

 E. F. M. Elms, 240 



Bombay Ducks — an Account of 

 some of the Every-day Birds and 

 Beasts found in a Naturalist's 

 Eldorado, by Douglas Dewar, 

 279 



The Butterflies of the British Isles, 

 by Richard South, 280 



The Analysis of Racial Descent 

 in Animals, by Thos. H. Mont- 

 gomery, Jr., 319 



Wild Life in East Anglia, by Wil- 

 liam A. Dutt, 358 

 Illustrations of British Blood-suck- 

 ing Flies, with Notes by Ernest 

 Edward Austen, 359 

 British Flowering Plants, by W. 



F. Kirby, 360 

 The Journal of tbe South African 



Ornithologists' Union, 399 

 Annals of the Natal Government 



Museum, Part I., 399 

 The Cambridge Natural History, 

 Vol. i., by Marcus Hartog, I. B. 

 J. Sollas, S. J. Hickson, and E. 

 W. MacBride, 440 

 A Vertebrate Fauna of Scotland. 

 Tay Basin and Stratbmore, by 

 J. A. Harvie-Brown, 471 

 Botaurus stellaris, 314 

 Brambling, 250 ; in Surrey, 110 ; 

 late stay, in Cheshire, 188; in 

 April, 313. 354 

 Breeding, range of Twite, 29, 71, 189 

 of Hen-Harrier in Cornwall, 34 

 habits of Ruff, 201, 285, 419 

 a new Irish haunt of Sandwich 

 Tern, 277 ; of Great Crested Grebe 

 in Essex, 315 ; of Black-necked 

 Grebe in Great Britain, 315, 354; 

 of Marsh-Warbler, fourteen years' 

 record of, 401 

 Bull-dog, anchylosed spine of, 311 

 Bullfinch, 250 



Bunting, Cirl,251, 269,— in Cheshire, 

 71; Corn, 103, 251,— distribution 

 in Wales, 350, 430 ; Meadow, 266 

 Ortolan, 251; Reed, 251, 270 

 Snow, 101, 251; Yellow, 190 

 Yellow-breasted, in Norfolk, 123, 

 134 

 Bustard, Little, 67, 335 

 Butcher-Bird, 383, 439, 470 

 Buteo lagopus, 469 

 Buzzard, Common, 299 ; Honey, 

 299; Rough-legged, in Somerset, 

 469 



Caccabis rufa, 387 



Caged birds, notes on the habits of 



some, 220 

 Cancer pagurus, 333, 436 

 Canterbury, spring arrivals near, 195 

 Caprimulgus europseus, 232 

 Carcinus mcenas, 53, 54, 331, 436 

 Carduelis elegans, 184, 224 

 Certhia familiaris, 183 

 Chaffinch, 67, 138, 190, 250, 269 

 Charadrius pluvialis, 87, 388 



